India's DRDO Launches Explosive Detection Kit in U.S.

A team of Indian scientists led by DRDO Director General, Avinash Chander, the chief architect of Agni series of ballistic missiles, was at hand for the global launch of the edk at a function at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Chander was upbeat over first of DRDO developed products getting globalised with the transfer of Indian technology to the U.S. which not long ago looked at the DRDO "as a very reluctant supplier".

DRDO is now talking to the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce (FICCI), which was instrumental in the launch of EDK in the U.S., for the roll out of 50 more DRDO-developed technologies for the international market under the DRDO-FICCI Accelerated Technology Assessment Commercialisation programme.

Significance of the launch of India developed edk in the U.S. was also not lost on the audience made up of U.S. defence bigwigs, including former U.S. defence secretary William Cohen, who hoped that such technology transfer would soon become a two way street.

The launch of edk in the U.S. was significant in more ways than one, said the Indian ambassador Nirupama Rao describing the transfer of technology developed in India to the U.S. as "an important milestone in the process of evolution of India-U.S. strategic partnership."

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